The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-01-14
Wisconsin Items.

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previous year.
Frank Hewitt's ninstrels, organized at
Chicago, went "a pieces few nights ago
at Beloit The members had to sell their
effects before leaving for Chicago.
Eastern capitalists ore said to have
leased hundreds of acres of land in Craw-
ford County, opposite Waseka, for mining.
Quicksand is proving to be a source of
considerable trouble to workmen engaged
on the new Water-works well at Appleton.
Rev. F. Debos, pastor of the Fourth
Ward Congregational Church at Green
Bay, has been forced to resign, he being
charged with having wife in Canada be-
sides one with whom he is now living He
claims to have been divorced from the
Canadian wife. Mr.. Debos went there from
Salem, Mass, year ago.
The seventeenth annual session of the
Wisconsin Academy of Science, Art and
Letters met in Madison few days ago
Interesting papers were read by Prof. r.
ID. Irving, of the State University and
others.
The jury at Milwaukee in the Bay View
riot cases returned a verdict the other
afternoon after having been out twenty.
five hours Andrew Boncel and John
Datke were acquitted and John Goudek
was found guilty. Goudek led mob to a
priests house, where guns belonging to the
Kosciusko guards had been stored, and at
tempted to seize the arms for an attack On
the militia.
Seth G.. Mcdonald died at Muscoda a few
nights ago. He was serving his second
term as coroner of Grant County.
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the golden wedding of Alfred Cary ard
wife, in presence of all the witnesses of
the original ceremony, which took place in
one of the first finished houses in the set
tlement.
The police Of Milwaukee recently sent
two armed detectives to the mining re-
gions to rescue a girl kept a prisoner in
dance-house at Bessemer.
At an early hour the other morning burg
ars took about 500 worth of goods from
.sss~ w. Luther's store at Viroqua, Vernon
s. --,l-ty3 A desperate but unsuccessful eff.
~ vas made to open the safe. The knob
was knocked off and the combination badly
battered. The burglars left their tools and
a package of powder.
DR.. Eugene Sloat, a well known practi-
toner in Grant County, was recently in
dicted for murder in the second degree at
Denmark Ia, his present place of resi-
dence. He struck a negro for repeated acts
of insult and rudeness toward him, and
some fifteen or twenty minutes afterwards,
as he was going home, the darkey came up
behind him and knocked him down by a
blow on the head with a hickory stick. He
turned upon his knees, drew a revolver
and shot his assailant, instantly killing him.
The Milwaukee Ship-Yard Company is
said to be making arrangements for the
construction of mammoth dry-dock, to
cost about $4,000
Milwaukee brewers deny that they have
contributed 5000 for the defense of Arens-
dorf, the alleged murderer of Rev. Mr.
Haddock, at Sioux City, Ia.
In the Capitol at Madison on the Sd J. NJ
Rusk took the oath as Governor of Wiscon-
sin, the other State officers, all of whom
are Republicans, being sworn at the same
time. Rusk and Secretary of State Timme
are their own successors, having been
elected three times successfully. Rusk
and General Lucius Fairchild alone enjoy
the distinction of having been Governor of
Wisconsin for three terms. All social fes-
tivities in connection with the Inaugural
ton were omitted out of respect to the
memory of Senator Logan.
Considerable excitement was recently
created among the farmers and stockmen
in Green Lake County by the discovery of
three Well-detined cases of pleuro-pneu-
monia in James Densmore's fine herd of
cattle, and the alarming increase Of hog
cholera in the vicinity of Markesan, in that
county. One farmer had lost one hundred
head of hogs in month.
Milwaukee policemen made thirty-five
hundred arrests last year.
Near Animation, Grant County, there is a
spring in which oil can be seen coming out
in good quantities on top of the water. A
gentleman picked up piece of rock on the
surface of the ground. He showed it to an
old miner from Pennsylvania, who pro-
nounced it a rich specimen of iron ore. The
idea that there is a good bed of iron in the
vicinity is held by number of men, and
they go so far as to claim that natural gas
and Oil could be found in large quantities
by a little boring.
The Madison clubhouse was damaged by
fire few mornings ago to the extent of
g, 500.
The fifth annual convention of the off,
GERS of the Wisconsin National Guard was
held recently at Madison with fifty officers
present, representing all sectors of the
State. Officers for the year were elected
as follows: President, Adjutant- General
G. P. Chapman; Vice-Presidents, Colonel
NJ T. Moore, of the Third regiment, La
Crosse, and Colonel S. J. Lewis, of the
First regiment, Monroe; Secretary, Colo
mel Charles King, of Milwaukee; Treas
urer, Captain Emil Bacusch, of the Second
regiment, Manitowoc.
James C.. Grober, a farmer living about
three miles from Marshfield, Wood Coun-
ty, died the other day from the effects of
an injury received while digging well.
The bucket fell upon him, distance of
forty feet, terribly crushing his skull and
backbone
The State Board of Examiners for admis-
sion to the bar met in Milwaukee few
days ago and examined fourteen applicants,
six of whom were rejected. The names of
the successful ones were: Messrs. Blanch-
ard, of Boscobel; Crosse and Hubbard, of
Eau Claire; Clark, Kershaw, Wilson and
May, of Milwaukee; 20 and Steele, of Me-
nomonie.
The business men of Ashland have voted
in favor of applying to the Legislature for
city charter.
Mrs. Lucy Gray, of Colby, Clark County,
recently received s., 800 as arrears of PEN
sion, and IS to draw S12 month from
this time out. Her husband served through
the war.
In the fourteen years previous to the
present suits there were 179 overflow
CLAIMS on the Fox and Wolf rivers tried
and awarded.
The body of female child, richly
dressed, was found frozen to death ia a
snoWbank alongside railway track at
Milwaukee the other morning, and the be-
lief was expressed that it was thrown from
train